Fertilizer-distributer.



- Patented Apr. l, i902. C. H. PELTUN. FERTILIZER DISTBIBUTER.

(Application filed Oct, 31, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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CHARLES II. PELTON, OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO.

FERTILIZER-DISTRlBUTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 696,476, dated April 1,1902. Application filed October 31,1901. Serial No. 80,607. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. PELTON, a citizen of the UnitedStates,residing at Springfield, in the countyof Clark and State of Ohio,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in FertilizerDistributers, of which the following is a specification, reference beingbad therein to the accompanying drawings. I

This invention relates to fertilizer-distributers, and has for itsobject to increase the efficiency of the feeding devices whereby thefertilizer is fed from the box or hopper to the tubes which conduct itto the furrow-opening devices.

To these ends the invention consists in certain novel features which Iwill now proceed to describe and will then particularly point out in theclaims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a rear elevation, partly insection, of one end of a grain-drill having my improvements appliedthereto. Fig. 2 isa detail perspective View of one of the feeding-shellsdetached. Fig. 3 is a similar view of one of the rotating feed -cups andthe adjacent portion of the hopper-bottom. Fig. 4. is a similar View ofone of the cup-supporting brackets. Fig. 5 is a rear elevation of one ofthe feed-cups and its associated parts. Fig. -6 is a side elevation ofthe same, partly in vertical section. Fig. 7 is a plan view of the same,and Fig. 8 is a transverse sectional view through the hopper.

In said drawings, 1 indicates the frame of the apparatus, and 2 a box orhopper mounted thereon and having a compartment 3 to receive thefertilizer.

In the present instance I have shown my fertilizer-distributer asapplied to a seeding machine in the nature of a grain-drill, the box 2having a compartment 4 for the grain, which is carried by suitablefeeding devices to the furrow-opening devices 5, which latter arecarried by drag-bars 6, pivoted to the frame at their forward ends. Theapparatus is supported on wheels 7, mounted on an axle S, which rotatesalong with said wheels as the machine advances. These drill featuresform, however, no part of my present invention.

A shaft 9, mounted in suitable bearings underneath the box or hopper 2,extends over the same from end to end underneath thefertilizer-compartment 3 parallel with the axle 8, from which latter itis driven by means of suitable intermediate gearing. The shaft 9 isprovided at suitable intervals with bevelgears 10, by means of which thefeed-cups are driven. These feed-cups are, in so far as their generalconstruction is shown, old and well known, being of a type set forth incertain Letters Patent granted to WValter Marks of 041., No. 213,053,March 11,1879,No..236,900, January 25, 1881, and No. 243,716, July 15,1881, said cups being commonly known as the Marks cup. In a general wayit consists of a fixed base or bottom 11, supported by brackets 12 onthe under side of the box 2 and provided with a discharge-mouth 13, afixed feeding-shell 14, carried by the fixed base, and a rotaryfeeding-cup 15, surrounding and supported on the fixed base andextending thence upward to a hopper-shaped bottom plate 16, forming'aportion of the bottom of the fertilizer-compartment. The bottom of thefertilizer-compartment is made up of a plurality of these hopper-likebottom plates composed of four plates or surfaces inclined toward themouth of the feed-cup, and by reason of this construction I am enabledto more certainly conduct the fertilizer to the cups and moreefficiently prevent clogging or bridging. 1 As a further improvementupon cups of this character I pr0- pose to attach to the interior of thevertical Wall of the feed-cu p 15 a plurality of stirringarms 17, whichextend upward through the discharge-opening of the bottom plate 16 andwhich are preferably arranged as shown,some of the arms being bentinward toward the center of revolution of the feed-cup, While others arebent outward, so as to extend over the top of the bottom plate 16. Inthe particular construction shown four arms are employed, two of whichare bent outward, while the other two are bent inward. By this means thefertilizer is kept thoroughly stirred up, both immediately above the cupand shell andalso outward from the margins thereof, so that clogging orbridging is reduced to a minimum.

It will be understood, of course, that the feed-cup 15 is provided atits lower edge with gear-teeth 18, which mesh with a correspondingpinion 10 on the shaft 9.

The fertilizer is discharged from the compartment 3 through the spout oropening 13 into the mouth 19 of a seed-tube 20, which extends downwardto the corresponding furrow-opening devices. In practice I contemplateemploying an equal number of fertilizercups and seed-cups, each pairdischarging into the same tube and the number of pairs being equal tothe number of tubes and of furrow-opening devices.

I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to the precise detailsof construction hereinbefore described, and shown in the accompanyingdrawings, as it is obvious that these details may be modified withoutdeparting from the principle of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a fertilizer-distributer, the combination, with a box or hopper,of feeding devices comprising a stationary hopper and feedingshell, arotary feed-cup, and stirring-arms secured to the wall of the feed-cupand extending upward therefrom into the box or hopper, said arms beingbent or deflected so as to stand at an inclination to the wall to whichthey are attached, substantially as described.

2. In a fertilizer-distributer, the combination, with a box or hopper,of feeding devices comprising a fixed bottom and feeding-shell, a rotaryfeeding-cup, and stirring-arms secured to the wall of said feed-cup atan angle thereto, some of said arms extending inward over the feedingshell, and others of said arms extending outward over the margin of thefeeding-cup, substantially as described.

3. In a fertilizer-distributer, the combination, with a box or hopperfor containing the fertilizer, of feed-cups supported below the bottomof said box or hopper, hopper-shaped or inclined plates forming thebottom of said box or hopper and serving to conduct the fertilizer tosaid feed-cups, and stirring-arms attached to the wall of said feed-cupsat an angle thereto, some of said arms extending inward over theinterior of the cup, and others of said arms extending outward over thehopper-shaped or inclined plates, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES H. PELTON.

- \Vitnesses:

E. O. HAGAN, IRVINE MILLER.

